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Mis à jour: 25 juillet 2026

I need not say that I attach no credit to this report, and that I believe you have endeavoured, by conciliatory means, to adjust the difference. At the same time, as you have acted in the belief that the spanish government were right in their pretensions, it is clear that your advice, whatever it was, and you do not describe it particularly, could not be expected to produce much effect.

M. (François) Guizot - Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 6)